Hockey fall sends man, 60, to hospital with life-threatening injuries

OTTAWA — A man in his 60s suffered life-threatening injuries Sunday afternoon after hitting his head on the Rideau River ice while playing hockey. The man was not wearing a helmet.

Paramedics said the man was knocked immediately unconscious after falling during the pickup game with friends and family in Oxford on Rideau Township, west of Kemptville. The accident happened about 3 p.m.

The man was air-lifted to the trauma unit of the Ottawa Hospital in critical condition.